CHAPTER 2 – PAST

This is going to be a disturbing chapter

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 CHAPTER 2 – past

‘Val’ I heard someone calling out to me, it was my father, his dimples were the cutest. When I got angry or sad, he would show me his dimples melting away all the worries that clouded my mind. He was a simple man, never after the riches or power, all he craved was a happy life.

People change when they get their mates, my father used to tell, but that never happened, not with mother, whoring herself out to our pack Alpha, Dicken Red, a ruthless man who never obeyed the laws of moon goodness.

There were times when she invited him over when father was out hunting and protecting the pack. I dint like the look in his eyes, his and his son’s. You can see the greed right through those people.

Even when the Alpha had a daughter, he didn't care about her existence, worst she was never brought out unless it was her birthday. He showed his fake deep affection for all the pack members. Nobody would go against him to tell the king the truth, not after he erased the entire family from the records after a person ratted him out.

My mom and I, we never talked, and with dad too, she was always out partying and shopping. I could see a troubled expression on father’s face whenever she scolded him, or just ignored him. I dint like my mother, and with all these happening there came a day when my father was called out, to fight against the rouges.

He barely could walk; he was hurt from the last battle, which happened a few days ago. His fever was running high. I pleaded with him to take rest, to request the Alpha, but he said ‘YOU ARE A RED, YOU ARE A WARRIOR, JUST LIKE ME, JUST LIKE US, WE FIGHT, WE NEVER GIVE UP, UNTIL OUR LAST BREADTH’. He was too faithful for his own good.

If only I could have convinced him, cried, begged him to not leave me, would I still see a coffin in my house the next morning. I cried and cried till my lungs gave out. The pack doctor was kind enough to let me sleep in her room. She was the only caring person I had met.

I went home only to be blinded by a disgusting scene before me. My mother’s legs were wrapped around the Alpha’s body, screaming. It was a horrendous sight. I just closed the door and left. She was anything but my mother or was everyone like this.

I had lost the belief in mates, something so profound and pure was being tainted by these sickening people. ‘Hey red head’ the Alpha’s son Lucas Red walked up to me. He was another pain in the ass, always finding reasons to bully me. 

‘Aren’t you one too’ I replied, and he got irritated. He had red hair, not as beautiful as mine, but you could pass maroon as red, which always ticked him off when I said that. He was older than me by 10 years, but he was still an immature brat.

‘Try acting cocky and in a few years, we will do what your mother is doing’ he smirked, well that smirk dint last long as I threw a punch at him. A satisfactory smile wrapped my face as blood dripped down from his nose.

‘you wait you Redhead, I will get back at you,’ he screamed running away.

Time passed by and I barely talked to anyone or went anywhere, sat in my room looking through the internet. I was in my trapped in my world and that woman who called herself my mother never searched for me, to know if I was dead or alive.

My daily routine for the past 5 years had been to prepare my breakfast, got to school, get bullied by Lucas, and come back home, surf on the internet, and sleep. Sometimes I just wished this cycle ended, and it did, except another danger awaited me.

A week after my 10th birthday, I came home after my school dismissed. My mom opened the door with a cheek smile, greeting me ‘Welcome home dear’. At the corner of the eye, I could see Lucas sitting on the sofa with a smirk.

I just nodded and went in. I couldn’t tell what her cunning mind was thinking. She made me sit next to him even when there were a lot of seats left.

‘you know Lucas here as turned 20 right’ she spoke in her flirtatious voice. I wondered how that mattered. ‘It seems you are his mate’ she replied and my entire world stopped. ‘What the hell, it’s not true, is it?’ I looked at him, hoping he would change his answer, but No, that dint happen.

‘You need to start the mating process, soon,’ she replied.

‘I would have known when he reached 28, don’t lie to me,’ I got up fuming with rage. What? they want me to believe this shit. ‘age doesn’t matter when it comes to mating,’ he replied. ‘oh yeah, isn’t that why you fuck those girls after lunch in the canteen,’ I replied.

‘come on sweety, are you jealous’ he asked but no my entire body felt, repulsed. It wasn’t him, he wasn’t my mate, they were lying, just so he could have sex with me.

‘I am leaving this pack’ I replied, almost reaching for the door handle when Lucas pulled me back, wrapping his fingers around my neck, nearly choking me.

‘you should listen to us when we talk sweetly to you’ he said pulling me across to the kitchen and pushed me on the counter.  A slight pain near my elbow and I knew I had fractured my left hand.

‘Don’t you have any shame?’ I threw my hands up aimlessly. My small body couldn’t resist the overwhelming power of a fully grown werewolf. He punched me hard, once, twice, slammed my head against the counter, until my attempts to refuse him died down. I nearly blacked out at one point.

when I came to my senses, something disgusting was happening.

I look at that woman, but she ignored my cries and pleas and just smiled at me with reassurance that we are performing a good deed, like hell we are. My stretched hands started searching for a weapon. Anything was fine as long as I could defend myself. Suddenly a knife, I was thankful I hadn’t cleaned up when I ate an apple this morning.

I slowly tightened my grip around the knife and pierced it across his neck, the smell of blood echoing in the room. ‘NOOO…What have you done’ that woman pushed me aside, holding on to his neck to stop the blood flow.

If only she had an inch of kindness in her, she wouldn’t treat me this way. I looked back at my home one last time sealing the memories, before I fled, running till my mind could think no more…..small light flashes started creeping into my eyes, my eyes shot open, as I looked around, terrified. Where was this place, my heartbeat rose by a mile, my breathing hitched, I started panicking.